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If you close your eyes and picture a hot dog, we have a pretty good idea of what you're imagining — just a simple frank on a bun with a squiggle of mustard. But someone who grew up in Maine or Massachusetts has a slightly different bun in mind than a person elsewhere in the U.S. would. That's because New England hot dog buns are unique, and slightly more complicated in their shape.
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Unlike a "normal" hot dog bun, which is cut from the side, or cut end, a New England hot dog bun is sliced from the top or toasted end of the bun. This gives the bun a flat bottom which is much sturdier, and makes it easier to load it up with toppings without fear of it crumbling in your hands. And beyond this, the normally rounded ends of the bun are cut thinner, making for a nicer balance of bread to filling, and gives one an additional pair of edges to toast, should that be they prepare them.
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For many people, the idea of a hot dog bun may be one that is lightly browned, rounded, submarine-shaped, and sliced nearly in half through the side to leave a sort of hinge. When filled with the frankfurter, the bun tends to teeter on its side with the cased meat nestled between the rounded top and flatter bottom.
But, ask a New Englander what a hot dog bun looks like, and they might have a whole other idea. In this region of the country, traditional 'furter bread options are typically slit cut right through the top, from tip to tip, as the hot dog lies in an opening in the middle of both long sides.
While hot dog buns were invented in the late 1800s, it was in the 1940s when the New England-style bun (also called the split-top bun, top-sliced bun, or frankfurter roll) was invented. But it actually had nothing to do with hot dogs at the time. The split-top bun was created especially for the clam rolls at the now extinct New England-based restaurant-turned-hotel chain Howard Johnson's. The Maine-based bakery J.J. Nissen was commissioned by Howard Johnson's to create a bun that would stand upright without tipping out the strips of cornmeal-dredged fried clams.
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